{"id":484230,"date":"2024-06-15T10:05:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T14:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484230"},"modified":"2024-06-15T10:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T14:05:24","slug":"bentancur-apologises-to-son-for-very-bad-joke","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bentancur-apologises-to-son-for-very-bad-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentancur apologises to Son for \u2018very bad joke\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spurs attacker Rodrigo Bentancur has apologised to captain Son Heung-min for using a racial slur on TV, sharing it was a &#8220;very bad joke&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While being interviewed live, Rodrigo was asked by the reporter for a Tottenham\u2019s player\u2019s kit.<\/p>\n<p>Bentancur answered \u201cSon? It could be Heung-min\u2019s cousin too as they all look the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the interview became viral on social media, Rodrigo apologized to his captain in Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sonny brother,&#8221; Bentancur posted on Instagram. &#8220;I apologize to you for what I said, it was just a bad taste joke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know I love you and I would never disrespect you or hurt you as I\u2019m not a person like that. Please accept my sincere apology!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Korean forward is yet to comment publicly Rodrigo\u2019s interview and apology.<\/p>\n<p>The 2 footballers play together since Rodrigo joined Spurs from the Old Lady at the beginning of 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Uruguayan footballer Rodrigo Bentancur says \u201cthey all look the same\u201d while talking about South Korean player Son Heung-min. Son is the captain of his team Tottenham Hotspur. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x2fTr4Glcp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/x2fTr4Glcp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hyunsu Yim (@hyunsuinseoul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hyunsuinseoul\/status\/1801907893060739262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurs attacker Rodrigo Bentancur has apologised to captain Son Heung-min for using a racial slur on TV, sharing it was a &#8220;very bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484231,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22202,19200,18466],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[22203,19201,18467],"acf":{"announce":"Rodrigo apologized to his teammate for racial slur.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484232,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484230\/revisions\/484232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484230"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484230"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}